David Simon, writer of The Wire, on AI (in an interview with NPR’s Ari Shapiro)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you’ve spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems, or saying…
SIMON: You mentioned that.
SHAPIRO: …Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don’t think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you’re trying to transition from Scene 5 to Scene 6 and you’re stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition.
SIMON: I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.
Guillermo del Toro, director of Frankenstein and The Orphanage has this to say:
AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I’m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. … The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, “What is your stance on AI?” And my answer was very short. I said, “I’d rather die.”
And then had this to say at the premier of Frankenstein… (very satisfying, but not safe for work).
And the incomparable Dame Emma Thompson:
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